[Creditwrench]

Here is a new spam fighting technique.

In Netscape (latest editions) you can set up a message filter so that it will delete any incoming email that already has a card in your address book. So, if you put somebody's address in your address book
and you get another email from them it is instantly vaporized. So you put in all the penis pill pushers and anybody else you wish you had never heard from and you will never hear from them again. And yes, you do get an awfully huge address book before long, but so what?

That works just fine so long as you don't have a virus infection that harvests email addresses and sends out copies of itself.

If you get any virus infected emails and are using Norton or another virus killer that pops up a description of the infected email you put in a card for that emailer as well. Do that while it is still in front of you and before you click it off your screen.

And if you get infected by a virus, guess who gets all those infected emails? Yep!
All those spammers and the guy that sent you the virus as well!

In time, the first guy who started the virus in the first place would probably start getting infected with his own virus.

And of course, most of the emailers have noreply email addys so they bounce and you get a mailer daemon message back telling you it was undeliverable so you put the mailer daemon in your address book too.

If we had a few thousand people doing that we would most likely get rid of spam and virus at the same time.

(LOL)